I know that those who argue about who was right and who was wrong have studied every minute of the war to come up with their defense. I have not, I find the whole episode disgraceful.
I agree. Isn’t it a great country that we can air our dirty laundry in public? ;-)
“I know that those who argue about who was right and who was wrong have studied every minute of the war to come up with their defense. I have not, I find the whole episode disgraceful.”
I see it as tragic and unnecessary .. slavery was an inherited evil and as slavery fell around the world, so it would have here. Anyone who says it wouldn’t have is a damn liar, because no one knows what would have happened.
They point to the fight over the Territories as if that was going to make it a sure thing .. well, I know a shitload of people who made plans, got married and bought houses who were divorced a year later .. I’m pretty sure Obama nad Reid and Pelosi were making plans for their next reign over us and that Martha Coakley had already measured the drapes .. plans to do something doesn’t make it a done deal and killing a few hundred thousand people and destroying a country and its founding documents just wasn’t sensible .. it was just plain rash.
Slavery died everywhere, around the world, within a couple of decades, it would have died here.
This war was going to happen and there was no stopping it. Too bad. Damn shame. And once in and sure of how bloody it was, it could have been stopped.
It was more about blood lust than rights at that point.